Blackgate and Jade Quarry both opened because they were below the population cap. Blackgate currently has a smaller population than Jade Quarry and some of the combined linked worlds populations (combined linked worlds population example being Crystal Desert + Darkhaven + Devona’s Rest combined has a higher population than Blackgate). With all that being said, we do keep track of the transfers that happen. Since we have been seeing an increase in transfer behavior with the past 2 world links, we are discussing whether we want to change how we calculate WvW world populations or if we want to lower the WvW population caps.
Thanks for this post based off of actual data from the developers of the game. Ain’t BGs fault Anet opened us up and people wanted to move here ¯\(?)/¯
and then you got some salty ppl sittin here posting about how BG should be punished. This means you’re advocating hurting lots of innocent WvW players who don’t get involved in the stupid server politics/drama, been on BG forever and just like to WvW because of something they had nothing to do with.
Also more facts, these guilds that moved to BG did so of their own accord. We weren’t expecting them at all and did not want this many guilds to move here but we can’t control what guilds do. Everyone knows this.
lulz a BG player that doesn’t want to be involved with server politics. what a cute little puggle you is. Wasn’t BG the bread basket of server politics since inception?
believe it or not, most wvw players on every server do not get involved in this kinda stuff, just us nerds do.
BG just massively overstacked tier 1, and I don’t see how it can be balanced now until the next server re-links. Hell, they might have to link like JQ+Mag just to have some sort of balanced coverage (and TC+SoS+FA for the 3rd tier one server). Actually, that might work, for tier 1 anyway.
Exactly. JQ isn’t as big as BG players like to think. Transfer a guild or two to SBI or TC and the scoring would be quite different IMO in T2.
Not sure what you do about FA and Mag. Link more servers I guess if their destination is T1 for now though some of these smaller servers want left alone. I think it will cause more harm than good. Anet should keep in mind there is still a great core of players who like small scale and have a anti-blobbing mentality.
For the most part, I guess we should stop complaining and wait for the next server links though we all get why we are continually disappointed in anet. At least they are trying I guess….
Agreed, Anet always disappoints us. I don’t think they should have opened any servers right now but that’s a discussion for another time. Anet opened up some servers for whatever reasons they have and it isn’t the fault of the players on BG. So when I see salty posts about doing this and that to BG which either directly or indirectly hurts the majority of players who just WvW and don’t get involved in the forum wars n kitten I take issue with that.
Many of these guilds showed up on BGs doorsteps unannounced asking for help getting set up in the community. At that point, we welcome them as they are now Squad BG and we all just want to have fun. Meeting new friends in a game of this age is always fun for people. So BG welcomes our new friends who have moved over, we are drama free and have a real chill stable non toxic community with a TS and forum you can use. Anet made a decision, moves were made and now we gotta move on the best we can. And this kinda stuff pales in comparison to the stuff we got goin on in the real world, real talk.
Blackgate and Jade Quarry both opened because they were below the population cap. Blackgate currently has a smaller population than Jade Quarry and some of the combined linked worlds populations (combined linked worlds population example being Crystal Desert + Darkhaven + Devona’s Rest combined has a higher population than Blackgate). With all that being said, we do keep track of the transfers that happen. Since we have been seeing an increase in transfer behavior with the past 2 world links, we are discussing whether we want to change how we calculate WvW world populations or if we want to lower the WvW population caps.
Thanks for this post based off of actual data from the developers of the game. Ain’t BGs fault Anet opened us up and people wanted to move here ¯\(?)/¯
and then you got some salty ppl sittin here posting about how BG should be punished. This means you’re advocating hurting lots of innocent WvW players who don’t get involved in the stupid server politics/drama, been on BG forever and just like to WvW because of something they had nothing to do with.
Also more facts, these guilds that moved to BG did so of their own accord. We weren’t expecting them at all and did not want this many guilds to move here but we can’t control what guilds do. Everyone knows this.
At this point, I’d rather get 2v1’d again to get action on the maps. BG seems dead because there’s no action, which causes people to log out, cause we’d rather do anything else other than karma training (I tag up for fights, fights end, half my group logs off). Groups from YB and JQ are just karma training empty borderlands thinking they’re hot stuff, complaining about us zerging them down with 10-15 man groups calling them “blobs”, all the while bunkering in keep lords rooms with siege.
Good joke.
If you want BG to play again, bring us fights without siege. Most of us won’t even care if we’re vastly outnumbered.
@Torqued: You seem bitter that BG won’t respond to your requests to push PPT. Guess what buddy, we’re not here to play for you. We’re here to play for us. If you want to play PPT, tag up and do it. Don’t expect someone else, who has no desire to want to play for PPT, to play that way.
Regardless of your perception of my attitude, the fact is that Blackgate is actively driving away PPT players and putting themselves at a disadvantage. Blackgate will never beat Yak’s Bend until they are willing to become like Yak’s Bend.
No amount of server politics will stop the unwashed hoards of Yak’s Bend.
You don’t know how PPT works, regardless of all those number crunching stuff you do (good work on those btw, they’re interesting to look at, despite not having any real relevance in the current WvW climate).
Why don’t you explain to me how PPT works? I’m always open to learning something new. What is my data missing that is so important? Server politics?
PPT isn’t a function (right now) of organisation and skill, but rather, of time and numbers. The more numbers you have on at any given time means that you’ll naturally get more PPT.
If you log in at any time outside of NA prime on BG you’ll notice this. Our small groups are backcapping as fast as they can, but due to lack of numbers, our PPT suffers. We lack numbers because people aren’t willing to put the time into WvW right now due to the lack of incentives to win and the lack of rewards while playing.
But then, I don’t think anyone on BG ever saw you put more hours in-game to help out our weaker time slots.
Maybe if Blackgate didn’t have such a sour attitude towards pugs and pve players they would have MORE people to put in those hours and there would be no grind. But alas, Blackgate is a “skilled fight” server and have chased away all those no skill pvd players.
Your inability to get the coverage speaks volumes about your server culture.
I really don’t understand your posts Torqued, it just seems bitter, and like your mad at BG because we play for fun..and we don’t devout all our time towards something we find meaningless, unrewarding, and not fun…
You are entitled to your opinion, or in this case, confusion. Don’t confuse my engagement in a larger argument as bitterness towards BG. I left BG because I didn’t like the culture the old guard created. As a person that is interested in playing the game that Anet created, sitting on BG and listening to the whining about how Anet ruined everything was getting tiring.
If you are confused, its because you don’t understand that others can enjoy things that you don’t. In this case, I enjoy games when I’m trying to win them. I don’t enjoy listening to stories of the glory days and how we could win if we wanted to. Put up or shut up. I don’t care about how awesome Blackgate was … I want to play the game.
BG’s toxic attitude towards PvD, siege humping “cancerous” game play is evidence that you don’t approve of others that enjoy different things. BG is bitter that Anet has ignored them and not provided them a “skill-based” WvW. which is about as idiotic a request that I could imagine.
Large scale warfare is not about fair fights. Its about coordination, communication, community, resources, alliances, “coverage”, morale, inspiration and RAW NUMBERS. You don’t have to believe me, but I would direct you to a history book. Warfare has always been a numbers game. And as the scope of the conflict grows the possibility of a fair fight dissolves and guerrilla tactics take over.
The servers that make the rational choices within the current game mechanics will push up and those that don’t will fall.
You’re the embodiment of all that is wrong with WvW and your opinion is objectively disgusting.
This game has been so mismanaged. You have an amazing combat system and had a great game like a year ago. Look at it now, practically dead. You killed WvW and PvP for me and keep cancelling things.
Warriors are so bad in PvP. Outclassed in every category.
It’s really sad seeing warriors in such a terrible state. Your chances of winning a match is reduced by the number of warriors in your team. It used to be the reverse, the more shoutbows, the better.
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Footage recorded while I was tagged up for KnM and aSc during BWE3. Was suffering a bit of server lag in some fights. This video includes some footage of us kicking YB and JQ out of Garrison, open field zerg fight vs YB and JQ “back to back”, killing JQ at a tower and then smaller scale open field fights with WvW from JQ. All footage is from BWE3. Thank you to my guild mates and militia for the support and to our opponents for the fights.
Special guest: Hasax/ND who was also engaged in the defense of Garrison against YB and JQ blobs.
Tales from the Courtyard Episode 1.
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Was doing some tpvp recently and had a fun and intense match in Courtyard. I know a lot of people do not like this map but I have always liked it. It is a nice change of pace from Conquest.
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Still mostly a non issue, take the tower then wait and get your troll kills and move on; let the people getting destroyed on their OWN BL have a chance to regain something. Of all the places the ones in question are most used for trolling opponents and scoring easy kills.
Granted, I will say that is the easiest place to get fights, especially on tiers that have few people left. However, once the people come to fight and you can’t hang on just back out and get to another tower/keep/garrison and fight there.
This isn’t used only when someone is getting destroyed. What if I am working on taking down a T3 garrison and that tower is my only base of operations to work with. I am trebbing their garrison from there. So they get to exploit and stop my garrison attack?
Also T1 server’s aren’t a PPT fest. The are K-Train fests. If they were PPT fests then how come servers don’t respond to me taking a paper keep in their home bl with a small group (10ish) with one golem (alpha) and 1 ram on each door. We got scouted and a few from the map tried to stop us but didn’t bring us down. After we took the keep we held it for an hour at least before a K-Train finally showed up to take it back. What took them so long? They though they would get more PPT by taking 2 towers in EBG then defending a keep? I’m not sure why people think T1 plays for PPT when they don’t. I join JQ public Teamspeak form time to time and never to they seem to have a concern as to how our PPT compares to other servers. Depending on the guild running the Zerg they are either looking for fights (fun) or just running through as many paper objectives as they can before porting to another map and repeating.
I can tell you it’s ppt, as all 3 servers in T1 right now are ppt’ing hard to avoid dropping to T2. As for your calls unanswered, a lot depends on the timezone, and often it has to do with the current pin being preoccupied. If it’s during NA, NA has a lot of smaller guilds, many prefer to fight than pvd.
Anyways, if you know JQ, none of the guilds on JQ likes to ktrain or play the ppt/backcapping game. But right now with BG pushing hard 2 weeks in a row now, everybody’s forced into this boring ppt-fest. Most guilds would prefer to fight, but you can’t fight if you are either 1) outblobbed, or 2) opponents waypoint to empty maps to pvd whenever you show up.
If you don’t understand map politics, I suggest you talking to the commanders. Also if you aren’t on ts, you’re simply not understanding what’s going on elsewhere. Don’t just assume, join ts so you know what they’re doing. Rather than assume people aren’t helping you because of this and that.
The point I was trying to get across, was that even if it’s TC that goes to T2, SoS and FA will have as much a tough time, if not more, from a T1 battle hardened server (that will likely be stirred up a bit from being punted to T2).
As to those saying that JQ needs to be opened, anyone that is or has played in T1 knows the truth. JQ has won 85% of the matches dating back to at least Oct. of 2014 (and by a decent margin). They outnumber both servers in the majority of time zones, and will do and say anything to stay #1, including tag watching and spying/listening in on TS (it’s not merely accusations, it’s truth).
I honestly don’t get why anyone (aside from wanting to be with friends/family) would want to go there. Eventually, you’re going to push your competition away, leaving you with a stale piece of moldy cheese.
Yeah, we already know TC will beat up the other two in T2. You were both saying the same thing though.
There’s pin spies and trolls here too. At least there use to be before they realized their efforts were in vain. Have fun and I hope you guys on TC (or whoever switches) give T2 a wake up call to how bad their fighting skills have gotten.
Well, BG has some great guilds (love open field fights with them) but I haven’t seen any on JQ, TBH. All they do is blob and blob and more blob. I have not seen one solo guild group alone from JQ – BG yes. The classic JQ guild is KILL, the leader says he only has 15-20 KILL on their dorito but they never counts the 30-40 other players that are on comms with them. JQ doesn’t believe they blob and no one can prove it to them even with videos images, etc. This is the mindset of the whole server.
Very true, much respect to TC for great fights in the field! JQ is kitten.
At least for T1 NA, TC and BG need to be opened up, and JQ needs to be locked for at least 6 months.
You seriously confused? BG won big last week. They winning big this week too. If anything, BG needs to be locked for at least another year or more. JQ and TC needs to be opened up for more transfers to come in to counter BG blobs.
LOL You only include the past 2 weeks but don’t include the past 5 months of JQ winning by 50k EVERY WEEK.
I think this is in regard to the Tempest/Ele having “8” Warhorn skills to use two for each Attunement. I cant imagine hearing the normal Warhorn noise in quick succession rather than once every 15-20s is to pleasant.
That makes sense. I tire of the warhorn sounds after three years.
So I read the notes for the Ele Warhorn livestream today and it mentions that they are getting new Warhorn sounds since the old ones are “fairly annoying”.
“•New warhorn sounds will be added for this specialization since the old warhorn sounds are fairly annoying. "
Will the Warrior warhorn also be getting these new sounds?
Hi, I just, i just dont know that,
some famous wvw player of twitch seem loving dueling in wvw, but i just cannot get it. winning a duel in wvw rewards a lot than zerging in wvw?
Thank you very much!
Not exactly sure what you are asking here. If you are asking why people duel instead of zerging it’s because it’s fun and takes a lot more skill.
Too bad dueling usually means whoever has the cheesiest build wins.
Why are past events and living story rewards not unlocked in the wardrobe automatically? For example, the SAB Green backpack. I don’t have the skin anymore but the game knows I earned it. Why isn’t it unlocked in my wardrobe? Same with the Mad King Book (the green one), I have the final version unlocked. Why do I not have access to the non flame versions of the book?
This has been an issue since the Wardrobe first came out.
TLDR: The game knows I earned certain rewards, why are they not auto unlocked in the Wardrobe?
This is happening on my other account, and it is really frustrating. I have to rep multiple guilds for WvW purposes and not being able to chat in one of them is effecting my gameplay greatly.
